Joseph nathan



@atten gieten tudiant @fitta JOSEPH NATHAN, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT `OF CIUMBIA. Letters Patent No. 70,350, dotted October 29, 1867.

IMPROVED lEGG-IOLDER.

. T0 ALI WHOM IT MAY vCON CERN:

Y -Be it known that I, JOSEPH NATHAN, of the city and county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented a new and improved Egg-Holder; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and correct description of the same, sulicient to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to understand and use-the same, reference being had to the aceompnying. drawings, which make part ofthis specifica-` tion, and iniwhichw- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved egg-hol`der, Figure 2 is a side elevation of a modification of the same, and. Figure 3 is a. plan view of g. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures. The nature of my invention .consists in a light, convenient, and cheap instrument, by means of which hot boiled eggs may be taken from the dish and emptied without being'obliged to' touch them, and which may also serve in place ot' an egg-cup.

A, in the drawings, may represent the handle of my egg-holder, in which are securely held the two ends a a of a wire ory strip of metal. The loop part of the wire or metal strip isbent incircular form, as shown at a', whilst the straight parts have a tendency to expand away from each other. A ring, b, slides on the straight part between thc handle A and the part a of the wire or strip, and when pushed towards the part a', it forces the parts a towards each other, land lessens theeircumfcrence of a. Two wires or strips of metal, @are attached to the strip a', with their ends (their bent parts) extending downwards in a curve, and crossing each other, as shown iniig.V 1. To the -under side of the lower strip or wire c, at the point where theyl cross each other, a rest or plate, d, is attached.

In figs. 2 and?, a modification of the device is shown, wire being used instead of metal strips, and only one cross-piece, c, is used. r

My improved egg-holder is intended to serve two purposes: prst, to obviate the necessity of' taking the hot egg out of the dish with the hand; and, seeond1y,to act as an egg-cup at the same time.`

In taking an egg out oi' the dish it is but necessary to allow either end to slip into the part a',- when, by slipping the ring towards the egg, the parta will be tightened around the egg, so as to hold it` securely. The egg may then be opened, and emptied into a tumbler, or may be eaten out of the shell without the necessity of touching the egg, the plate d serving as a foot to the egg-holder. The handle may have a iiat surface, gained by cutting oit' a piece, as shown at e in a red linve'in tig.,1, so as to allow the holder to rest securely on two points. Eggs may be placed in these holders and boiled, the handle being outside of the vessel, and then served on the table with'the holders already attached. l

The holders may be made of any suitable material, and with curved or otherwise ornamented handles, and can be manufactured at'a very smallekpense.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim 4as new, land desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- The egg-holding device, consisting ofthe handle A, with hat portions e, expanding strips a a", ring t, orosspieces c, and foot-piece d, substantially as described. Y The'above specification of my improved egg-holder signed this sixth dayV of June, 1867.

JOSEPH NATHAN.

Witnesses:

D. QURAND, GaAs. D. DAvls. 

